Hi:

While troubleshooting some shutdown problems, I attempted to disable my AVG Free in Tools>System Startup, by unchecking the box next to its entry. After rebooting, I found that entry was missing from the System Startup list entirely, even though I did not choose the delete option. Moreover, my ZoneAlarm Firewall entry was also missing, and my firewall did not load.

Both programs were still on my system. I was able to get ZA to reload at startup from settings within the ZA Control Center, but I had to reinstall AVG in order to get it to load at startup.

I have used this Tool in the past to temporarily stop other programs from loading, without losing the re-enable option in Spybot. I am not using the resident TeaTimer. Running Win XP here. My PC is malware-free.

Is this expected behaviour? Here are the affected entries:

--- Spybot - Search & Destroy version: 1.4 (build: 20050523) ---

Located: HK_LM:Run, AVG7_CC
command: C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe /STARTUP
file: C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe
size: 357888
MD5: 679093afd939b3c1b88110ebf859984d

Located: HK_LM:Run, Zone Labs Client
command: "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
file: C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
size: 755480
MD5: b4e843ded6daf99aec3fbfe395e643c7